Please join us for the screening of the Orange-bellied Parrot film “The Desperate Plight of the Orange-bellied Parrot” at the Reardon Theatre in Port Fairy. We're also excited to announce that the film makers, David Neilson and Karen Alexander, as well as Rachel Pritchard from the...
It’s been a busy few months for Mulloway anglers across the state, with many either tagging Mulloway or keeping frames for our research projects, both of which are funded by the Victorian Fisheries Authority through Recreational Fishing License Fees. [caption id="attachment_29898" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Mary Spencer donated...
Karst rising-springs (KRS) in the South East of South Australia represent important, but highly threatened ecosystems for a diversity of flora and fauna species. In fact, almost a third of the freshwater fish species of South Australia occur in these ecosystems. Building on a number...
If you go down to the woods tonight, you might see a ghost! Or rather, ghost mushrooms. Omphalotus nidiformus is a bio-luminescent fungi which can be found growing on decomposing wood in pine forests of the South East. This native species has adapted to life in...
Have you ever done the 'Goolwa cockle shuffle'? Year 11 Conservation and Land Management students from Investigator College had the shuffle all sorted, after assisting Sylvia to gather, identify, tag and measure cockles at Goolwa Beach. Sylvia provided the students with a background to the ecology, management and conservation...
Last weekend, NGT's Ben Taylor and Tessa Roberts joined and enthusiastic bunch of volunteer tree-planters in Stipiturus Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula, SA. The popular community planting event, known as 'SwampFest', is held annually in the park to help re-vegetate historically cleared areas, and...
It has been a pleasure to be involved in a project being run through the Adelaide City Council recently revolving around - would you believe - ‘a little butterfly’. This creature is called the Chequered (or Grassland) Copper and it belongs in the Lycanidae family...
Hindmarsh Landcare Network is looking to recruit community members to join their planting festival on the weekend of 7-8 July in the Kaniva area in western Victoria. The Landcare group will be aiming to plant 12,000 seedlings at two properties in diverse habitats including creekline and...
It was a perfect sunny winter day when some keen NGT staff and volunteers recently arrived at NGT's new Reserve at Nelson, Kurrawonga, for a busy working-bee. Pumps were fixed, gutters cleaned, fireplaces created, weeding completed and fallen trees removed. Chainsaws were buzzing, brains storming and...
Fourteen wonderful and eager volunteers helped out during the first OBP count weekend of 2018 in SW-Victoria. It was great to meet all the new volunteers and to catch up with returning project supporters. Despite the cold and wet weather, it turned out to be an...